A surgeon’s presentation to first-year medical students has a low level of abstraction. This means that his talk is

a. complex and philosophical.
b. rambling and long-winded.
c. specific and concrete.
d. illogical and confusing.


Answer: c

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Indicate whether this statement is true or false.

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